Paralysed man asked for help to die, none did, so set fire to himself
Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Final Exit, People in the News, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Oct 18th, 2008
The story of the last few days around the young English rugby player who was paralysed after a game accident, and later chose assisted suicide in Switzerland, reminded me of a haunting experience I had in 1980. When I was at the world euthanasia conference in Oxford, UK, a young man in a wheelchair approached […]